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United States of America / Re: Researching James McKnight 1771 Pennsylvania USA
« on: Friday 18 June 21 19:45 BST (UK)  »
oldohiohome. Thanks for those suggestions. All that I know was included in the original post. I have been the marriage route and many other permutations but have not arrived at any answers that are believable. Hence asking more skilled people on here.
I know that the whole family were Presbyterian and that just might provide answers.
Del

Addendum. I know that some of the family were Loyalist to the core. They are mentioned in the UELC. DAR ? mmmmm!

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United States of America / Researching James McKnight 1771 Pennsylvania USA
« on: Friday 18 June 21 07:43 BST (UK)  »
I am researching the above James McKnight who died between 21st Jan 1771 when his last will was made and 4th Feb 1771, when the will was proven. James described himself of Menallen in York County in Pennsylvania (now Adams). The will mentions two daughters, one Martha McKnight and the other Mary McKnight. It also mentions that Martha McKnight married a Simon McGrew and Mary McKnight married a Joseph Brouster in May 1762 in Lancaster County. I have York County Orphans Court records dated 1789, listing the children from both marriages, so assume that both men had died by this year.

I have tried to find BMD information on James but so far nothing. Can somebody try to find BMD information on this gentleman for me?
TIA Del

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Charles William Lock(e)
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 08:16 GMT (UK)  »
Pauline. My mistake. You are quite correct. Sadly Doreen M's daughter died 2017. I tracked her to Wareham in Dorset. She might have provided answers.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Charles William Lock(e)
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 07:26 GMT (UK)  »
Pauline J. Norman J did marry a Doreen M English in 1940. Norman was killed in action Italy December 1944.

Dundee. I am assuming that Ethel May and Daisy Adelaide were sibling sisters


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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Charles William Lock(e)
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 07:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your efforts. He was I thinking that I was having a senior moment. Confusion reigns supreme it seems

I have recently received a birth certificate for George W Lock. On there is shows Ethel May Lock mmn Onslow as George's mother and Charles William Lock as father. Father's job is described as Grocers Assistant. The address is Winton in Bournemouth. The 1939 census shows Ethel May with two sons< George W and Norman J with a daughter Doreen May all living in Green Road Bournemouth.

GW LOck's birth certificate shows the mother Ethel May as the informant on the 28th April 1911.

Del
 

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Charles William Lock(e)
« on: Monday 09 March 20 17:46 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to trace a paternal line and have hit a stumbling block. I know that Charles William married a May Ethel Onslow 1882-1967 and that they had a child George William on 25th March 1911 in Bournemouth Hampshire. A BMD for Charles would be very helpful and hopefully enable me to proceed

Del

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London and Middlesex / Re: A brickwall tracing George William Hawkins
« on: Friday 14 February 20 04:06 GMT (UK)  »
VRH born Lambeth 1948, MMN Williams

This ties in very well .... thanks

Gladys Lock mn Williams I have found.

GWH is the enigma sadly

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London and Middlesex / A brickwall tracing George William Hawkins
« on: Friday 14 February 20 02:51 GMT (UK)  »
G'day folks.
I am trying to trace a George William Hawkins. I have adoption paperwork for his son that puts George as 31 in 1951 so about 1920 birth.

I know that he was living at 134b Evelyn Street Deptford London SE8 1948 to 1951/2 and maybe longer. There he had a Gladys Hawkins although they were unlikely married and a son Victor Ross Hawkins (later adopted). Gladys was the birth mother. It seems that George also had close family close by Evelyn Street

I have indications that this couple lived together in Minet Road Lambeth for a while where Victor was born.

Apart from this I have no more information but would like to know who George was, BMD's, anything that might flesh him out. Information on the close relatives would be a bonus

The above is verbal information passed down through family

Help   Del

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Other Countries / Argentina; Passenger lists for vessels leaving Scotland 1825'ish
« on: Sunday 29 September 19 21:28 BST (UK)  »
I am researching the family of John Tweedie 1775-1862, born in Biggar and buried in Buenos Aires. I have found one record that says John and wife took most of their children to Buenos Aires, leaving Leith to arrive BA late 1825 on a vessel called the "Symmetry". The record lists both parents and three of the six children. A footnote on the list concedes that the family might have left on an earlier vessel and already in BA at the time of Symmetry's arrival. Yet Argentine records do not show any arrivals for this family.
I have hit a shuddering halt in this research and would like to learn which children travelled with the Tweedie parents, departure and arrival.
Here is the link to the record "http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/dodd.html"

Del

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